Ex Officio: Jack H. Pryor Colonel (Ret), US Army

Jack H. Pryor is a combat infantry officer with 40 years of experience in the US military, education and senior management positions in industry and international business. Prior to founding ALFI, he was the co-founder and principal of Colgen LP, a defense and security consulting firm, the president of a major international energy firm’s Latin American subsidiary, and a senior executive in several US commercial firms. He has provided consulting to senior government officials in four Latin American nations and, while still on active duty in the US Army, he served as the Director of Counter-Narcotics for US Southern Command.

During his distinguished military career, Mr. Pryor established himself as one of the US Army’s preeminent trainers and educators. He participated in the establishment of the US Combat Training Centers for heavy maneuver, light infantry and SOF units. He was one of the principal authors of the Battalion Training Management System (BTMS), and he developed and wrote the Light Infantry Training Strategy. Following Battalion Command, he served as the Operations Officer and as the Senior OC for Light Forces at the National Training Center. Following the invasion of Panama, Mr. Pryor was invited to advise the President of Panama and his executive leadership on that nation’s national reconstruction strategy and its implementation. He effectively bridged communications between the Government of Panama and the US diplomatic and military missions. Mr. Pryor has devoted a significant part of his military career to educational reform within the US Army. During his tenure as President of the US Army Management Engineering College (1991-1994), he served on the US Presidential Blue Ribbon Panel for Educational Reform.

While at the College, Mr. Pryor had many notable accomplishments that included being named to the first National Re-Invention Lab under the Clinton Re-Invent Government program. Under his leadership, the College became the first fee-for-service organization in the federal government, and the first to establish a Federal Sector Marketing Office. He developed relationships throughout the US and Europe, and opened regional campus facilities to lower costs for 50,000 students. During his tenure, the College became the number one distance learning institution in the United States. Mr. Pryor successfully privatized the College and created a self-sustaining business model that freed the College from federal support. He pioneered new organizational structures that had never been seen in higher education. The College was the Executive Agency for the Federal Sector Total Quality Management (TQM) and trained President Clinton and his Cabinet in TQM and Sixth Sigma. Mr. Pryor pioneered 360-degree performance assessment in the federal sector and this assessment program was implemented successfully at the College in 1992. While at the College, Mr. Pryor and his staff pioneered 52 revolutionary government best business practices that have since have all been adopted by some part of the Federal government.

Mr. Pryor’s experience in education has spanned several decades. He is a graduate of the Navy War College and holds three Master’s degrees, including National Defense & Strategic Studies, Educational Administration and Secondary Education. He has attended Senior Executive Management Seminars at Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, Tufts, Stanford and Duke Universities. Jack’s post-graduate studies are in Organizational Design and Behavior. In the civilian sector, Mr. Pryor has taught in the Psychology Department at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and served as UNLV’s baseball coach. Mr. Pryor is one of the pioneers in sports science (Sensory Integration and Cognition) and has been working in this area for over 30 years. He has utilized the sports world of elite athletes and teams as his laboratory for analyzing, testing and determining the guidelines of high performing athletes and teams. Mr. Pryor’s partial list of awards and decorations include: Silver Star, Purple Heart (with 3 oak leaf clusters), Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star (with/v 2 oak leaf clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (with 4 oak leaf clusters), Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with/v 4 oak leaf clusters), Good Conduct Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Master Parachutist Badge, and UNLV Athletic Hall of Fame.